Super-engage your Year 8 maths classes with this knockout tournament worksheet themed around this summer’s 2026 international football tournament. This edition focuses on directed number arithmetic, carefully calibrated to be fully accessible without a calculator.

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What’s Included:

• Print-Ready PDF: High-quality student tournament worksheet and a complete teacher answer key.
• Editable PowerPoint: Fully customizable layout. Easily modify the calculations to differentiate for your groups or adapt the tournament teams while keeping the presentation structure intact.

Atomised Difficulty Progression:

The resource features an incremental increase in structural complexity, isolating specific non-calculator skills step-by-step:

• Basic Directed Addition & Subtraction: Calculating simple sums with negative numbers (e.g., -3 + 4, 5 + -2).
• Multiplying & Dividing Negatives: Applying the rules of signs with integers (e.g., -3 × -1, -8 ÷ 2).
• Mixed Operations (BIDMAS/BODMAS): Integrating order of operations to determine final scores (e.g., -8 ÷ 2 + 5).
• Complex Multi-Step Problems: Combining brackets and mixed operations to solve for the final tournament stages (e.g., (1 - 5) × (-1) - 1).

How Do I Use It?

• Printed Resource: Works perfectly for paired work, independent practice, cover work, or a high-energy starter activity.
• On-Screen Class Competition: Project the bracket onto your board, have students solve the matches on mini whiteboards, and fill in the team progression as a class.

Includes full Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals, Third-Place Playoff, and the Final. All solutions are distinct integers between 0 and 5 to prevent draws, ensuring a clean, logical progression through the tournament bracket.